Connecticut western news., 1887-07-06
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

lion to appoint him to the command of the Thirteenth Army Corps until he saw the an- nouncement of the actual appointment i'll the press. The statement is reiterated that the appointment was made for the express pur- pose of getting BoulanSer away from Paris during the national fetes and review in July, thus preventing him by his presence from tempting the people into demonstration in his favor and against Germany. The police have confscated the entire issue of picture representing Boulanger as "The Savior of France" prepared for distribution during the fetes.
 A severe earthquake shock occurred in Guayaquil Ecuador, causing much damage.
 Emperor William is now able to go out daily.
 A movement, which promises to be i'm portant, will be begun ln Germany this year. A regiment of engineers, now stationed at Der lin has undertaken more extensive task than has been assumed ill any previous year by military engineers. They propose to construct private railway line in Mecklenburg, joining Nismar and Carow by way of Sternberg Bruel and Goldberg. The contractor for the line has concluded an arrangement with the Colonel of tho regiment, according to which the whole work will be executed at the orli- nary price. Operations will be begun directly, and the road will be finished by the autumn. If the experiment proves a success it is pro- posed to carry on similar operations on grand scale, and to employ military engineers in the construction of all State lines.
 The town of Bantry is suffering from drought, and the inhabitants have great diff culty in procuring water. Capt. Blackburne of Her Majesty's ship Shannon, which is sta toned in Bantry Bay, offered to furnish forty tons of condensed water to relieve the towns wants, but the board of poor law guardians met and resolved to decline to accept any favor from the Shannon's captain in consequence of the insult he had offered the inhabitants in seizing MT. Murphy's yacht for flying green flag on jubilee day.
 It is announced that 21 persons were tried at St. Petersburg between the 7th and 18th of June on the charge of being active members of the secret society called the 'Will of the Peop'e," of complicity in several murders, in cluding that of Chief of Police Col. Snedekin; of participation in a number of robberies; of having assisted ill several dynamite outrages. and of having taken part in the starting of un- lawful printing offices. Three of the prison CTS, Frenkelssemen, Bielvussoff, and Lebred- enko, were acquitted. Lopotin, an ex-official; Sealowa, an officers daughter; Sauchomlin, Komashevitch, Kusin, and 1vanoff, sons of officials; Jakubovitch, student; Starodvolsky, priests son; Popof, Jalko, Antonoff Livadin, and Volnoff, tradesmen; Geier, all officers son, and Dobruskina, woman, were all sentenced to death. The death sentences were, however, commuted in the cases of Lvadin and Popoff to exile in Siberia, and in those of the others to imprisonment at hard labor. Two others
  prisonment at hard labor and one to imprison- ment without labor.
 An express train running between Berlin and Cologne, while going at high rate of speed, was derailed at Muelheim. Seventeen persons were injured by the accident.
 Queen Victoria presented gold medals commemorative of the jubilee to each of her royal visitors, and silver medals to their at tendants.
 The Royal British Commission appointed to investigate the system of M. Pasteur has submitted a report which is generally favorable to the adoption of his methods.
 The Paris newspaper Le Temps says Eng Syria in return for German support of Eng lands claims in the Anglo-Turkish treaty mat ter.
 The Ghilzais had serious engagement with the Ameer's troops, in which the latter were victorious.
 An amendment to the Coercion bill grant ing Irish prisoners the same privilege as that accorded the government, of challenging juries, was rejected.
 Two of party of six bandits were hanged in Sonora for robbing carriage party and fatally wounding Mexican.
 Two Mexicans who went to sleep under a freight car at Rio Grande Station, Texas, were killed by the moving of the train.
 M. Nelidoff and the Count de Montebello, the Russian and French Ambassadors, respec- lively, have addressed note to the Porte on the subject of the Egyptian Convention. It is reported that their communication contains Q threat that war will ensue should the conven- tion be ratified. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, tho Special british Envoy to Turkey in refer ence enc to Egypt, declines to modify the terms of the convention. The ratification of the instru- ment has been postponed by mutual agree ment until after the Bairam festival. The sit- uation of affairs is disquieting.
 MT. Carnegie, in an interview at Wolver- hampton, said that the Canadian Governments 8 statement that heavy duties on metal would increase British and decrease American trade, was merely to gull British iron masters. The professed reductions announced from Ottawa had the snme object. Canada, he said, fully intended to have her own iron and steel man. ufactories and nothing would stop her, and she would rather have them established by English than by American capital.
 -Rumors are current at Vienna that King Milan of Servia is about to abdicate. Prime Minister Dcpretis of Italy Is dan gerously i'll, and his physicians entertain slight | hope of his recovery.
 The Hon. J. E. Foster, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, is going cruising on Dominion gunboat around the fishing | grounds, to study the problem himself. He says no reliance can be placed on the reports telegraphed from there.
 King Milan of Servia is at Vienna as the guest of the Emperor, the latter having inti- mated his readiness to receive him. An inn portant political outcome is expected to result from the conference of the sovereigns Queen Natalie refuses to read the letters addressed to her by King Milan.
 Lord Harrington has written letter in which he says that it would be most unwise to limit the duration of the Crimes bill to three years, as suggested. Parliament, he says, has power to repeal or amend the act, and he GtofQ of Tro1 oy,6 ,loD Der liament to dispense with extra laws at no dis tant date.
 i United States Minister McIane publishes note stating that he offered Baron Raymond de Selliere,, who was recently placed in a luna- tic asylum by relatives, and who in 1886 in New York declared his intention of becoming an American citizen, only friendly services in securing liberty. It was alleged that the Min. ister had demanded the Baron's release, and that the French Cabinet had taken the matter nnder consideration. MT. McLane says his proffer was simply D, rsonal and in no wise official or diplomatic.
 The French Senate discussed the report of the Committee on Consumption of Spirits M. Claude said that the committee had come to the conclusion that the drinking of spirits in France had reached such height as to be a social danger. Alcohol was essentially duti. able article, and it behoov q the State to pre-. vent its excessive consumption, at the same time securing the utmost profit to the treasury by the suppression of adu.tcration and other frauds. M. Rouier approved the committees report. He said the Government would pr se cute fraud wherever discovered, and that the revenue collectors would be instructed to take vigorous action against imposition.
 The British special envoy to Turke. threatens to leave Constantinople unless thu Egyptian convention be ratified at once.
 By fire in 8 tenement house in London several people lost their lives under very tragic circumstances.
 A battle took place between the rive guards and smugglers, fifteen miles beloy PjeGras Negras, in Mexico.
 A Town Swept by Fire.
 A lamp exploded in drug store at Eliza
 beth, Ky. started & cOnfaeration that sMen